Spring-clamp for wire-fence stays



(No Model.)

M. B. WALTER.

SPRING CLAMP FOR WIRE FENCE STAYS.

No. 593,868. Patented Nov.- 16, 1897.

NITED f STATES MAROELLOUS B. WALTER, OF OARDINGTON, OHIO.

SPRlNG-CLAMP FOR WIRE-FENCE STAYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,868, dated November 16, 1897. I

Application filed January 19,1897. Serial No. 619,836. (No model) To all whom it warty concern: I

Be it known that I, MARoELLoUs B. WAL- TER,-a citizen of the United States, residing at Cardington, in the county of Morrow and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Fences; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to wire fences, and more particularly to fasteners for securing the line-wires to the stays.

My object is to provide an extremely simple and cheap fastener or clamp which may be readily applied to the stay and line-wire and adapted to hold the same firmly together and constitute a simple and ornamental fastener.

Having the foregoing object in view, the invention consists of a fastener of improved construction, as will appear more fully from the following description and appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front View; Fig. 2, a rear View; Figs. 3 and 4, side views, and Fig. 5 a top view.

fastener, and hence the line-wire, in the proper position at all times.

It is advantageous to employ a stay such as the one shown, the same consisting of twisted wire, inasmuch as the loop and bent ends aforesaid'are adapted to obtain a strong hold thereon.

Slight and immaterial changes may be resorted to in bending the wire without detractin g from any of the advantages of the fastener or clamp, and hence it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction herein shown and described, but consider that I am entitled to all such variations as properly come within the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a stay and linewires, of afasten er consisting of a single piece of metal which has its intermediate portionextended across and looped around the stay,-

and has its end sections or limbs looped or bent completely around the line-wire and pro- Vided with hooks engaging with the stay.

2; The combination with a stay and line- Wires, of a fastener made of a single piece of spring metal which is looped around the stay and has its end sections or limbs bent or twisted'completely around the line-wire on opposite sides of the stay, and then extended along the length of the stay and terminating in hooks which engage with or embrace said stay.

3. The combination with a stay and a line- Wire, of a fastener made of a single piece of spring metal which is looped around the stay, is then bent completely around the line-Wire on opposite sides of the stay and extended along the length of the stay on opposite sides thereof and the end portions terminating in angularly-disposed hoops located one in ad- Vance .of the other and embracing the stay on the same side thereof.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARCELLOUS B. WALTER.

Witnesses:

O. W. MILLER, GEO. B. TERRY. 

